I couldn’t find an updated how to article on setting up NetXMS on a windows server so thought I would write one. If you weren’t aware NetXMS is a network and infrastructure monitoring and management system. It’s a lot like netdisco if you’ve ever used that. Requirements MySQL NetXMS Windows (x64) Server and Web interface […]
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Recently after updating SCCM we noticed we could no longer pxe for our new UEFI machines. We’re greeted with the error: After some digging turns out wdsmgfw.efi is missing from Boot\x64 directory. To resolve this, I went on our local server and browsed to C:\Windows\System32\RemInst\boot\x64 and inside was the magical wdsmgfw.efi file. A quick copy
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Received a new batch of laptops support UEFI. We’ve previously always used legacy PXE boot. Upon some googling we found a way to support both legacy and UEFI verse only supporting one or the other. This video by BranchCache Bobs shows a great tutorial on how to set it up and the differences between the
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We’ve noticed with some windows 7 updates lately (we run enterprise x64) random machines won’t load new profiles. After a ton of searching online I stumbled upon one that got us back online. Our fix was searching the machine for all .sqm files and deleting them! To do this browse to your C: and in
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Recently built a new WDS (Windows Deployment Server) and everything went smooth. Were transiting from Server 2008 to 2012 R2. Upon importing our old images to the new one and testing it out, everything worked great! That was until we tried to capture a new image. We kept receiving the error below. Error Message Boot
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This week we are setting up a new CAD lab with 38 machines. Were going from 2012 to 2013. Unfortunately we were running the license server off a old XP machine that sat in the closet. Since then we have been migrating our servers to our virtual servers. So we created a new server and
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We currently use this to allow computer labs to auto login to generic network accounts when the computer is turned on. Administrators often want to set a domain as the default selection in the Windows logon screen for all users. This can be easily achieved by following these instructions: Windows XP / Server 2003: Set
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We have a mixed environment of XP and Windows 7. Of course this doesn’t make things any easier trying to support both operating systems. Below I’ll outline how we deployed our printers. Both our AD and Print server are Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. If you need to just deploy for 1 of the operating systems skip to
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***Note that when you stop the print spooler service and delete the print jobs, you will have to delete ALL of the current print jobs as there is no way to tell one print job from another. Step 1: First go to Start, then Run and type in services.msc. Scroll down to the Print Spooler service, right-click on it and choose Stop.
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There are 2 diffident ways of finding what your current kms key count is. They both do the same but some may prefer one way over the other. Note you will need to run this on the server which is hosting your key First Way Open up My Comptuer and navigate to C:WindowsSystem32 Hold shift and right click in
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